Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Wisconsin has been a mess these last two years, pitting family against family, friends against friends and neighbors against neighbors. It all really started with the election of Scott Walker when he ran on this platform.

While this statewide civil war has made headlines for three plus years now, there has been an underlying pain in our collective behinds that heretofore has been undiagnosed. I finally found out what that constant pain is - Waukesha.

A man who was caught last year having sex with a couch discarded on a
Wisconsin street pleaded guilty this afternoon to a public lewdness
charge.
During a hearing in Waukesha County Circuit Court, Gerard Streator,
47, copped to a misdemeanor charge stemming from September’s illicit
curbside encounter.

Waukesha, we get it. You dont like us, and we really do not like you. Can we somehow learn to get along or must you keep tormenting us with pure ridiculousness? We can not keep covering for your mistakes and problems forever!

Sex with a couch? When Rebecca Kleefisch said she thought gay marriage would lead to people marrying tables and other furniture, that sounded ridiculous to most of us -- but she might have been thinking of her neighbors in Waukesha County.

I visited Waukesha for the first time when I was six years old in the 50's. I remember standing in my Uncle's front yard, which was on a hill, and looking all around at the sea of identical houses and shingled roofs, no green space in sight, and thinking: "I would really hate to live here". It just looked so boring.